Article: Swimmers Deliver the Gold in Speedo Suit Designed With Help From SGI.

Fluid Flow Studies Conducted on SGI Altix Help Reduce Drag

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- When sports enthusiasts look back on this year's Summer Games in Beijing, they'll recall an historic event in which a single swimmer earned eight gold medals in eight days. But they may also remember 2008 as the year swimming and supercomputing became one.

That's because swimmers from the U.S. and around the world shattered records and brought home medals while wearing elite Speedo Fastskin(R) LZR Racer(R) swimwear designed in part on supercomputers from SGI (http://www.sgi.com/ ).

More than two years ago, Speedo's Aqualab research and development ...

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